[quote]JoeGood wrote:
grip placement for deads? I keep switching around searching for grip Nirvana.[/quote]
He said in his book to just make sure your arms hang straight down and you are not gripping the on the smooth part of the bar (genius!).
Also, keep your upper back “relaxed”, rather than having your scaps pulled back and down. This will significantly reduce the distance the bar needs to travel. But at the same time you need to arch your low back hard.
I’m going to try this with lighter weights to see if I can get the coordination figured out. I’ve read it before but just never paid any attention to it.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
grip placement for deads? I keep switching around searching for grip Nirvana.[/quote]
He said in his book to just make sure your arms hang straight down and you are not gripping the on the smooth part of the bar (genius!).
Also, keep your upper back “relaxed”, rather than having your scaps pulled back and down. This will significantly reduce the distance the bar needs to travel. But at the same time you need to arch your low back hard.
I’m going to try this with lighter weights to see if I can get the coordination figured out. I’ve read it before but just never paid any attention to it.[/quote]
Yeah that all sounds good, but I’d really like to know how I’m supposed to keep my low back arched hard but my upper back relaxed with no scapular retraction. BEcause it sounds like bullshit to me.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
grip placement for deads? I keep switching around searching for grip Nirvana.[/quote]
He said in his book to just make sure your arms hang straight down and you are not gripping the on the smooth part of the bar (genius!).
Also, keep your upper back “relaxed”, rather than having your scaps pulled back and down. This will significantly reduce the distance the bar needs to travel. But at the same time you need to arch your low back hard.
I’m going to try this with lighter weights to see if I can get the coordination figured out. I’ve read it before but just never paid any attention to it.[/quote]
Yeah that all sounds good, but I’d really like to know how I’m supposed to keep my low back arched hard but my upper back relaxed with no scapular retraction. BEcause it sounds like bullshit to me.[/quote]
I dunno. I’m sitting in my office chair and I can arch my lower back hard without retracting my scaps. Once I retract, my arms go up another couple of inches. He’s not saying to not have upper back control, just be aware of how much it adds to range of motion.
I would need to practice it so I didn’t tear something in half.
There was a Dilbert cartoon which points out the guy in charge of the office move has inhuman power. “Give me your firstborn son or be banished to the cube next to your boss!”
[quote]cavalier wrote:
There was a Dilbert cartoon which points out the guy in charge of the office move has inhuman power. “Give me your firstborn son or be banished to the cube next to your boss!”[/quote]
My current boss (nice guy, in over his head in many respects, son of the owner) thinks it might be a good idea if we SHARE an office. It’s part of a succession plan for me to be VP. I’m all for the transfer of knowledge but that is probably not the way to go.
So, I had another ‘discussion’ with my wife about training. It started when I mentioned I was going to watch a training video on my laptop.
“Oh, is it something for work?”
“No, it’s by a guy called Ed Coan.”
“What does he do?”
“Probably the strongest guy ever pound-for-pound”
And, then it starts…
“Isn’t it supposed to be about fitness?”
“Who says I’m not fit?”
“Why do you want to be the strongest man in the world? I don’t want you to turn into the Hulk. That’s not attractive to me.”
“I’m 45 years old. I’d be lucky to be the strongest guy in the neighborhood. When I get too big to be attractive please let me know.”
I tell me wife that I am getting strong in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse so that I can defend the family for as long as possible, I also mention that I am getting fat so that if the Zombies take me down they will be so busy eating my fat, sugary body that my wife and kids will have time to escape. Try that as an option, women love a hero.
just let me know k 
